Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center

Carson Hole Fire Facilitated Learning Analysis (216KB pdf posted 7/30/2010)
"On July 3, 2010, at 12:54 PM, a Bureau of Land Management smokejumper was injured during initial response of the Carson Hole Wildland Fire on the Grand Valley Ranger District of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests (GMUG) in Colorado. The injuries sustained include a fractured left fibula and a sprained right ankle. The employee was released from the hospital on July 3rd and is currently recovering at his home unit."

Bear Fire Facilitated Learning Analysis - Firefighters Exposed to CS Gas
(Posted 7/28/2010) Seven Firefighters from the Los Padres National Forest (CA- LPF) and three from Fort Hunter Liggett (CA-FHL) are injured after exposure to an unknown substance during initial attack. Note: This incident was reviewed using the June 2009 Facilitated Learning Analysis implementation Guide.

Organizational Learning and Managing Fires for Multiple Objective
The following articles come from Fire Management Today, Volume 70 - Issue 1, 2010

A lightning storm over the Beaverjack Fire, in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Photograph by Mark S. Moak, professor at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT, and lookout at Hells Half Acre, 2005.

"Managing Wildfire for Resource Benefits" - Fire Management Today
Written by Tom Harbour (86KB pdf posted 7/29/2010)
"Change has come to wildland fire use (and its precursor, prescribed natural fire). The Federal Interagency Wildland Fire Community now has only two kinds of fire: wildfire (unplanned fire) and prescribed fire (planned fire). According to the 2009 “Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy,” the Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior agencies can now manage wildland fires for multiple objectives concurrently, and the objectives can change as the fire moves across the landscape."

"Implementing Federal Wildland Fire Policy - Responding to Change" Fire Management Today
Written by Richard Lasko (237KB pdf posted 7/29/2010)
"A revision to the 2003 Interagency Strategy removes the distinction between wildland fire use and wildfire. This will enhance a fire manager’s ability to implement Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy by allowing consideration of the full range of positive and negative attributes of a fire."

"Organizational Learning Contributes to Guidance for Managing Wildland Fires for Multiple Objective" - Fire Management Today
Written by Tom Zimmerman and Tim Sexton (119KB pdf posted 7/29/2010)
"Since the inception of organized fire suppression in the early 1900s, wildland fire management has dramatically evolved in operational complexity; ecological significance; social, economic, and political magnitude; areas and timing of application; and recognition of potentially serious consequences."

The France-USA HRO Project - "Enhancing Reliability in Incident Management" Working Paper (936KB pdf posted 7/15/2010) The close-out presentation to the US of the France-USA High Reliability Organizing Project to Enhance Reliability in Incident Management was conducted on July 1, 2010 in Marseille, France. This presentation was prepared and presented by Renaud Vidal, Research Engineer, Centre d’Etude et de Recherche en Gestion Aix Marseille (CERGAM).

France/USA HRO Project Close Out Meeting Webinar (Posted 07072010)
The close-out presentation to the US of the France-USA High Reliability Organizing Project to Enhance Reliability in Incident Management was conducted on July 1, 2010 in Marseille, France and recorded by GoToWebinar. An earlier version was given to the French team at the end of 2009.